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A. T. LAINSON. NON-REPILLABLE BOTTLE.

No. 597,117. Patented Jan. 11, 1898.

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ALFRED THEODORE LAINSON, OF COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO E. O. LAINSON, OF SAME PLACE.

NON-REFlLL-ABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 597,117, dated January 11, 1898.

Application filed March 16, 1897.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED THEODORE LAINSON, acitizen of the United States, residing at Council Bluffs, in the county of Pottawattamie and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Non-Refillable Bottle, of which the following isa specification.

The invention relates to improvements in non-refillable bottles.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of non -refillab1e bottles and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one which will have to be sufficiently mutilated in order to obtain access to its contents to prevent it from being afterward used and sold as an original package, thereby insuring purchasers and proprietors against fraud ulent refilling and adulteration.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient de vice for enabling the neck of the bottle to be readily severed from the body thereof in order that the bottle may be mutilated without breaking the neck into small fragments.

Another object of the invention is to provide means whereby the neck of the bottle, after it has been severed from the body of the same, will be connected therewith in order that persons using the contents of the bottle may see at a glance that it is genuine. The invention consists in the construct-ion and novel combination and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In thedrawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a non-refillable bottle constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical sectional view of the upper portion of the bottle. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the rotary framewhich carries the glass-cutter.

Like numerals of re ference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

l designates a bottle provided with upper and lower corks or stoppers 2 and 3, arranged at the top and bottom of the neck of the bottle, and the lower cork 3 is provided with a Serial No. 627,780. (No model.)

metal plate 4, which covers its upper face and which engages the lower one of a series of annular shoulders 5 of the neck of the bottle. The annular shoulders 5, which are arranged at regular intervals and which may be of any desired number, are formed by recessing the inner face of the neck, as shown,

and the lower cork, which may be readily forced downward past the shoulders, is prevented by the same from-being withdrawn. The plate 4, which may be constructed of zinc or any other suitable metal, prevents a corkscrew from penetrating the lower cork, and forms an efficient shield for the same.

In order to obtain access to the lower cork and the contents of the bottle, the neck thereof must be broken ofi, and to facilitate ready breakage the neck is provided, below the upper face of the lower cork, with a thin connecting ligament 6, which renders the neck frangible and which is formed by an exterior groove V-shaped in cross-section.

The neck is provided, above and below the frangible ligament 6, with shallow exterior grooves 7, receiving upper and lower rings 8 of a rotary frame 9, which is provided with a finger-loop 10 and which is preferably constructed of wire. The upper and lower loops, which are connected by a cross-piece,carries a steel glass-cutter 11, arranged to engage 8c the reduced portion or ligament 6 of the neck, so that by rotating the frame 9 the cutter is caused to cut into the ligament or reduced portion. After the bottle has been cut by the glass-cutter the neck is readily separated from the body of the bottle by a light blow, and, as the line of severance is below the plate a, the lower cork is freed and the neck is connected to the body of the bottle by the rotary frame as the cut is made between the upper and lower rings. The severed neck identifies the body of the bottle and tells at a glance that the contents are genuine.

It will be seen that the bottle is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is absolutely impossible to obtain access to its contents until it is sufficiently mutilated to destroy its identity and to prevent it from being afterward used and sold as an originalpackage, and that it will guar- 10o antee to purchasers that its contents are genninc and unad ulterated.

What I claim is 1. In a non-refillable bottle, the c0mbinati on of a bottle provided with a frangible 1i gament, and a rotary frame connected with the bottle above and below the ligament and oarrying a cutter arranged to engage the said ligament to enable the neck to be readily severed from the body of the bottle,- said rotary frame serving to connect the neck to the body of the bottle after the former has been severed from the latter, substantially as described.

2. In a non-refillable bottle, the combination of abottle provided with a frangible liga- ALFRED THEODORE LAINSON.

Witnesses:

J. H. KENT, RH. GRAHL. 

